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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1532369, member: 68&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; This is what I mean.&nbsp; There are Russian coins in poundage so they can&#039;t be all that scarce. We need to remember though that poundage is a sort of &quot;consumable&quot; because it is used for all sorts of purposes fromn play coins for children to scrap metal.&nbsp; People throw such coins in the garbage and I&#039;ve even heard of buckets full being set on the curb for trash pickup.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, while we see a lot of really nice old high grade coins this is probably atypical for the mintage.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know but it&#039;s likely the coins were heavily used in circulation and then melted.&nbsp; Soviet collectors were strongly discouraged from coin collecting at all and the few who did collect avoided Soviet coins and focused primarily on European and czarist coinage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This means few coins survive at all in Russia except heavily worn coins and there are no &quot;old collections&quot; hitting the aution block every day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I were a buyer in any of these coins I&#039;d be careful.&nbsp; But there are probably still lots of bargains that can be snapped up becausae these markets are in their infancy and no one really knows the common from the rare.&nbsp; One thing is sure; if these markets become mass markets even coins we consider &quot;common&quot; in XF could become valuable even in VG.&nbsp; Like most moderns it is paltry demand causing low prices rather than the coins being common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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